pet peeve

pet peeve

An issue that causes one frequent and recurring annoyance. It's always been my pet peeve when cars turn without using their signals. It drive me crazy!A: "Ugh, I hate it when people talk during a movie." B: "Oh, I know, that's my pet peeve, too!"

pet peeve

Fig. a frequent annoyance; one's "favorite" or most often encountered annoyance. My pet peeve is someone who always comes into the theater after the show has started. Drivers who don't signal are John's pet peeve.

The government's tactics when it gets peeved at a product can be extreme, as in the 1950s, when scientific papers of the psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich were burned by the government in the course of stopping the sale of a device he sold that it judged fraudulent.

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